RHSA-2016:2585Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
November 3, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-1981 →CVE-2016-3712 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-1981 — Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines CVE-2016-3712 — qemu-kvm: Out-of-bounds read when creating weird vga screen surface

🎯 Affected products32

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-img-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-common-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-debuginfo-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • qemu-kvm-tools-10:1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing this update, shut down all running virtual machines. Once all virtual machines have shut down, start them again for this update to take effect.

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